Avengers cocktails
by The More I Arty
I think I would really like The Hulk. Should make all of these and watch the film sometime.
Also I should just watch Avengers, geez.
So my boyfriend’s been calling me a walrus for a while. Not because I’m fat or have a moustache but because ‘feminist walrus’ has become an in-joke ever since a friend called me and his girlfriend, my friend, Feminist Walruses for having a bitch about the ridiculously weak female character in The…
expbaronline: The Avengers Shot Challenge
Ingredients:
Captain America-
Grenadine
Blue curacao
Blueberry schnappsIron Man-
Grenadine
Blue curacao
Black Heart spiced rumThor-
Wild Turkey American Honey
Citrus VodkaHawkeye-
Grape Pucker
Captain Morgan: TattooThe Hulk:
Grape Pucker
Absinthe (NV Absinthe Verte used)Directions: For all shots, layer the ingredients in the order given (except for Thor, which should be stirred). If all the ingredients are chilled, it should be very easy to layer them.
A note from the creators and the ‘shot challenge’ explanation:
Happy Avengers Day one and all!! So the trick here is they get stronger the further you go down the list. We have the order very carefully placed and drinks carefully crafted to embody the heroes. We are using the movie universe avengers even though we are aware they were not the first avengers.
Captain America:
Doctor erskine was going to share blueberry schnapps with him, but he couldn’t have it. Also due to the advanced tissues on his organs he can’t get drunk, hence this shot is the weakest.
Iron man:
Tony stark has battled on and off with alcoholism so his tolerance for alcohol is high hence the high proof rum, yet he tries to not drink hence the grenadine to dilute the alcohol.
Thor:
He is a god. He drinks after battle and can handle his alcohol, yet human alcohol seems to affect him more hence he is the middle.
Hawkeye:
Just a normal human with unbelievable accuracy with all fire arms, bow being his weapon of choice. (p.s. Unlike the trailers we here at EXPbaronline do support Hawkeye and think he is bad ass)
Hulk:
He’s the Hulk, and as he so eloquently has stated in the past, “HULK AM THE STRONGEST THERE IS!!!!!” hence he is last.
So there you have it the avengers shot challenge. Enjoy.
Spcial thanks to Alex Stephenson this week for his amazing art for the avengers shots. Check out his hilarious web comic Narcolepsy inc.
Congrats to EXPbaronline on creating this great looking shot series! If you’re still hungry for more Avengers drinks, don’t forget about Black Widow’s cocktail. Remember, always be responsible while drinking.
Why I’m Not Depressed By The End Of The World
Okay, first read this: http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/another_word_05_12/
Go on, I’ll wait.
Okay. So it makes some good points, and I’ve certainly noticed a tendency towards the completely depressing in a lot of new science fiction. I’m not going to argue with anything it says, per se, but I want to talk about an exception.
I’ve been reading Dan Abnett’s series “Gaunt’s Ghosts” recently. It’s set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, which is known for creating the word ‘grimdark’ and generally exemplifying it in every possible way. The default good guys are the Imperium of Man, an immense empire which venerates a near-dead God-Emperor, policed by xenocidal fanatics, and defended by transhuman supersoldiers and truly numberless legions of more-or-less ordinary people. This is a society which kills whole planets because there might be an alien there, or simply by bureaucratic mix-up. It is, as dystopias go, pretty bleak.
The thing is, though, even in a universe like that and with nothing but war, it is still possible to have heroism. People die, but they can make it mean something. There is monstrous evil, not all of it confined to the enemy side, but it can be found, it can be fought, and it can be defeated.
And there are good, strong people, who don’t let the world destroy them, who change the world just by living in it.
So I think, ultimately, they’re hopeful stories. And I’m sure that’s true of lots of other dystopic fiction.
(Oh, and it has humour too. Generally pretty dark, but also pretty funny!)
Dishonored
I was ‘pon the internet today, and came across a trailer for this delightful-looking game, to be called Dishonoured.
Website is here: http://www.dishonored.com/
It looks great - the start of the cinematic makes me think of King Rat, which I have barely started reading but it was a nice thing to associate something with, and the gameplay puts me in mind of some cross between the Thief series and Mirror’s Edge, both of which were PRETTY GREAT in my opinion.
So I will be eagerly awaiting this one.
Um, okay so Pope Alexander the something somethingth/Cesare Borgias
Date Masamune and Sanada Yukimora
And Jay the Lone Wanderer
Dude
I’m saved
only because of jay
all the other idiots would kill each other in the first five minutes
well, yukimora would kill himself with an aneurysm of enthusiasm
Gurl, I’ve got Chad Michaels, Latrice Royale, and Sharon Needles. I AM FUCKING SET, BRING ON THIS APOCALYPSE NONSENSE. :D
eta: Or I could like actually read the thing. …so I’ve got Latrice Royale, ADA Casey Novak, and Pinkie Pie. ……yep, I’m still good. BRING ON THE APOCALYPSE, YO.
Oh, sweet. So I’ve got the protagonists from Octavia Butler’s Kindred, my kickass fictionalized OT4, and the protagonists from Anne Bishop’s Daughter of the Blood. We’d defeat the zombies, find a cure, and make everything perfect. :P
Fictionalized OT4, Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Greg Lestrade, Molly, Irene Adler and the Criminal Minds team. I AM SAFE AND SAVED. (Also Daughter of the Blood \o/)
Colonel-Commissar Gaunt, Commander Shepard, and the demon-lord Mercy.
Those zombies don’t stand a chance in Hell.
